Improvement in horseshoes



WARNER HINDS, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSESHOES.

Speciication forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,016, dated October23, 1866.

To all whom it mayV concern:

Be it known that I, WARNE HrNDs, of Worcester, in Worcester county,State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Horseshoes; and I do hereby declare the followingdescription and accompanying drawings are sufficient to cnable anyperson skilled in the art or science to which it most nearly appertainsto make and use my said invention or improvements without furtherinvention or experiment.

The nature ofmy invention and improvements consists in the applicationto the shoe of peculiar devices for retaining it to the hoot', and soarranging them that they shall not be liable to work loose by wear, andin plating the exposed parts to preserve their luster.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a shoe with my improvements. and Fig. 2is a cross-secv make them ot' such form that they shallhturn and clinchwhen so driven. This is accomplished by making them slender, and leavingthe under side nearly straight, and beve-ling the upper at the point, asshown in Fig. 2. The outside of the lips and other exposed parts I plateto protect it.

In putting on the shoe the li'ps C C C are first bent back, as shown bythe dotted lines o o', Fig. 2, the shoe fitted, and places made in theedge of the hoof for the lips C C C. The foot is then put down, and withthe horse standing ou the shoe the lips C C C are driven up snugly,forcing the clinching-points into the hoof', which, turning as theyenter, clinch and hold them securely. i

It is evident that more than one clinch may be used on each lip, ifnecessary, and they made to clinch toward each other; or even straightpoints, as at t' z', may be used with the clinches, and other variationsof my invention will occur in adapting it to different cases.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Iatent, is

The horseshoe constructed substantially as herein described, as a newarticle of manufacture.

WARNER HINDs.

Witnesses J. G. ARNOLD, L. A. G. ARNOLD.

